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William J. Thimbleby — 26 Patents

Apple: 26 patents #1,217 of 18,612Top 7%
Sunnyvale, CA: #930 of 14,302 inventorsTop 7%
California: #20,975 of 386,348 inventorsTop 6%
Overall (All Time): #150,017 of 4,157,543Top 4%
26 Patents All Time
William J. Thimbleby has been granted 26 US patents while listed as an inventor at Apple. The first was granted in 2013 and the most recent in November 2025. William J. Thimbleby ranks #150,017 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 3.6%). Patent records list William J. Thimbleby in Sunnyvale, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2013 to 2024Bar chart with a peak of 5 patents in 2019.peak 52013: 4 patents20132014: 1 patents20142015: 2 patents20152016: 1 patents20162018: 2 patents20182019: 5 patents20192020: 3 patents20202021: 1 patents20212022: 4 patents20222024: 1 patents2024

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 26 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12468682 Conflict-free graphs of distributed data structures 2025-11-11
D1098165 Display screen or portion thereof with animated graphical user interface Marisa R. LU 2025-10-14
12056339 Device, method, and graphical user interface for providing and interacting with a virtual drawing aid Charles J. Migos, Gustaf Engstrom 2024-08-06 $268,361,000
11481538 Device, method, and graphical user interface for providing handwriting support in document editing 2022-10-25 $262,914,000
11380028 Electronic drawing with handwriting recognition 2022-07-05 $213,612,000
11275517 Reducing metadata for data structures 2022-03-15 $265,207,000
11270486 Electronic drawing with handwriting recognition Peder BLEKKEN 2022-03-08 $181,377,000
10895954 Providing a graphical canvas for handwritten input Peter L. Hajas, Jennifer P. Chen 2021-01-19 $530,753,000
10795558 Device, method, and graphical user interface for providing and interacting with a virtual drawing aid Charles J. Migos, Gustaf Engstrom 2020-10-06 $282,421,000
10739911 Unified drawing framework Brandon M. Tennant, Conrad R. Carlen, Bradley William Griffin, Patrick O. Heynen, Ryan S. Dixon 2020-08-11 $147,060,000
10650565 Rendering animated user input strokes Jennifer P. Chen, Peter L. Hajas 2020-05-12 $117,896,000
10523663 Shared password protection within applications Bicrumjit S. Bhullar, Markus Hagele, Jay Christopher Capela, Gustaf Engstrom, Timothy I. Mahoney +2 more 2019-12-31 $109,024,000
10489033 Device, method, and graphical user interface for providing and interacting with a virtual drawing aid Charles J. Migos, Gustaf Engstrom 2019-11-26 $106,937,000
10388055 Rendering animated user input strokes Jennifer P. Chen, Peter L. Hajas 2019-08-20 $106,570,000
10346510 Device, method, and graphical user interface for providing handwriting support in document editing 2019-07-09 $98,822,000
10254939 Device, method, and graphical user interface for providing and interacting with a virtual drawing aid Charles J. Migos, Gustaf Engstrom, Anton Davydov, Alexander Charles MacLean 2019-04-09 $118,341,000
10089056 Device, method, and graphical user interface for collaborative editing in documents 2018-10-02 $93,373,000
9886230 Device, method, and graphical user interface for collaborative editing in documents 2018-02-06 $65,660,000
9396581 Contact shadows in visual representations Jennifer Pon Chan 2016-07-19 $68,975,000
9098182 Device, method, and graphical user interface for copying user interface objects between content regions Charles J. Migos, Jay Christopher Capela 2015-08-04 $59,170,000
8972879 Device, method, and graphical user interface for reordering the front-to-back positions of objects Charles J. Migos, Jay Christopher Capela, Christopher Douglas Weeldreyer, Elizabeth Gloria Guarino Reid 2015-03-03 $69,304,000
8677268 Device, method, and graphical user interface for resizing objects Jay Christopher Capela, Charles J. Migos, Christopher Douglas Weeldreyer 2014-03-18 $81,295,000
8612884 Device, method, and graphical user interface for resizing objects Jay Christopher Capela, Charles J. Migos, Christopher Douglas Weeldreyer 2013-12-17 $66,897,000
8593488 Shape distortion 2013-11-26 $89,589,000
8539386 Device, method, and graphical user interface for selecting and moving objects Jay Christopher Capela, Charles J. Migos, Christopher Douglas Weeldreyer 2013-09-17 $73,460,000